By Diane Batshaw Eisman, M.D. FAAP Doctor Eisman is in Family Practice in Aventura, Florida with her partner, Dr. Eugene Eisman, an internist/cardiologist
Our ancestors had some strange practices. Something puzzling happened during the Iron Age in the Iberian Peninsula. Severed skulls were found with large iron nails or spikes driven from foreheads through to the occipital bones.
I wondered why this strange practice had occurred. And I discovered that I was not alone in my curiosity.